Dr Bianca Fadel is a Research Fellow in Human Geography Policy and Development at the of Northumbria University. Her PhD research analysed identity and belonging in local volunteering experiences during protracted crises, particularly in the case of Burundi, in East Africa. She is part of the research team and involved in policy-focused projects with volunteer organisations including VSO, and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. As a practitioner, she has previously worked as advisor for humanitarian diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brazil; and her experience also comprises the implementation of local youth engagement volunteering projects with the Brazilian Red Cross.
Key areas of interest: Volunteering; Community Development; Humanitarian Action; Resilience; Participatory Methodologies; Global South; Decolonisation
Working languages: English; French; Portuguese; Spanish
- Reconceptualising volunteering, crisis and precarity: the experiences of refugee youth in Uganda during COVID-19, Mills, S., Baillie Smith, M., Fadel, B., Okech, M. 1 Apr 2025, In: Social & Cultural Geography
- Refugee volunteering and responses to displacement in Uganda: navigating service-delivery, work and precarity, Baillie Smith, M., Fadel, B., Ahimbisibwe, F., Turyamureeba, R. 14 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
- Digital Transformation in Development Settings: Remote Volunteering and Digital Humanitarianism, Fadel, B., Elert Soares, T. 12 Feb 2024, The Palgrave Handbook of Everyday Digital Life, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
- The reproduction of inequality through volunteering by young refugees in Uganda, Okech, M., Baillie Smith, M., Fadel, B., Mills, S. 1 Aug 2024, In: Voluntas
- The scale, forms and distribution of volunteering amongst refugee youth populations in Uganda, Fadel, B., Baillie Smith, M., Mills, S., Rogerson, D., Sahasranaman, A., Okech, M., Turyamureeba, R., Tukundane, C., Ahimbisibwe, F., Boyle, O., Kanyandago, P. 1 Nov 2024, In: Population, Space and Place
- Volunteering by Displaced Youth in Uganda: Livelihoods, Skills, Employability and Inequalities, Fadel, B., Baillie Smith, M., Ahimbisibwe, F., Boyle, O., Freimane, I., Kanyandago, P., Mills, S., Okech, M., O'Loghlen, A., Rogerson, D., Sahasranaman, A., Tukundane, C., Turyamureeba, R. 1 Sep 2024, 聽Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement und Freiwilligendienste , Baden-Baden, Germany, Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft
- A New Generation of Volunteers as Changemakers, Okech, M., Baillie Smith, M., Fadel, B. 10 Sep 2023
- Working with refugee youth, Mills, S., Baillie Smith, M., Fadel, B., Okech, M. 7 Dec 2023
- Uneven geographies of youth volunteering in Uganda: Multi-scalar discourses and practices, Baillie Smith, M., Mills, S., Okech, M., Fadel, B. 1 Aug 2022, In: Geoforum
- Volunteering hierarchies in the global South: remuneration and livelihoods, Baillie Smith, M., Fadel, B., O'Loghlen, A., Hazeldine, S. 1 Feb 2022, In: Voluntas
- Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2022
- Other: Member of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) 2019
- Other: Member of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Expert Group to support the Plan of Action for Integrating Volunteerism into the 2030 Agenda 2019
- Other: Member of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Working Group on Volunteering in Dangerous Situations 2018
- Other: Member of the Volunteering in Conflicts and Emergencies Initiative (ViCE) 2018
- Other: Global Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRHS), Brown University 2016
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